The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-12

jean Ingelow is more than fifty
years old, and her friends are trying to
secure for her one of the annuities award
ed by the crown for literary services.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Virginia has adopted a
of thanks to Mrs. Grover
Cleveland for her example as an abstainer
from intoxicating drinks.
CHARLES Heyne, a poor umbrella
member of Pittsburg, who is now dying
of consumption, served as soldier in
three great wars-the American civil war,
the Austro- Prussian and the German
conflicts.
Mr.. John G.. Whittier, the venera-
BILE poet, requests editors to state that he
finds it impossible to reply to solicita-
tons which reach him by every mail for
autographs, notices of books and answers
to questions on matters of no real inter-
est to the writer's or himself.
The Emperor OF China is the short
est monarch in the world, being only five
feet tall; the Emperor William of Germany
is the tallest, being just six feet; Prince
Albert Of Germany, nephew OF the Empe-
Tor is six feet six inches tall; the Emperor
of Rucoio ia non rlv civ foot
Coventry Patmore told friend Of
visit which he once made to Leigh
Hunt, when the poet kept him waiting
for two hours, while he arranged himself,
faultlessly, in an airy and becoming CO.'S
tune, exclaiming, as he entered, to his
weary and impatient guest, "Ahl what
beautiful, happy world we live in, Mr..
Patmorer'
Rev. Joseph Cook is to tell the peo-
of Boston of Current Religious Perils."
In order to disabuse the mind of any read
er who may think that matter with which
Mr.. Cook deals is photographed, we
hasten to say that neither the Monday
lecture nor the Monday lecturer is con-
sidered by Mr.. Cook as among the cur
rent religious perils. Transcript.
Madame Ristori is mentioned by
The World, of London, as having twice
saved life. The first time it was in
Spanish theatre, when the great actress,
seeing Marshal Narveez softened by her
admirable acting, besought him to pardon
soldier who was to be shot next morning
for striking his commanding officer. Her
next rescue was that of Spanish
American whose. life she begged from the
President of the Chilian Republic.
Physically the Gear of Russia is
the strongest man in Europe. When he
was czarewitch he one day took a gold
rouble in his hands and by main strength
twisted it into corkscrew. Throwing
the mutilated coin at the project of
police, he said, " If you open one Of my
letters in the future will treat you as L
have this COIN" The incident was the
outcome of an order on the part of the
Gear that all letters should be opened by
the police.
In his young manhood the late
Earl Of Iddesleigh was esteemed the
cleverest amateur actor in England, and
at one time he actually thought of going
on the professional stage. Later in life
he was much interested in the church,
and read the lessons in his sons church
at Pynes, probably as often as Mr.. Glad
stone performed the same services at
Hawarden. He was also the author of a
revised and improved form of the mar
riage service.
When Mr.. Longfellow, says The
London Literary World, visited Queen
Victoria at Windsor Castle, the servants
crowded on the stairways and in the
lobbies to get view of him. On the
Queen asking them next day why this
compliment was paid to the poet, she was
told that they used to listen to Prince
Albert reading "Evangeline" to his chill
dren, and knowing the lines nearly by
heart, they longed to see the man who
wrote them. The Queen is fond of telling
this story.
VIM. Black, the novelist, is plain
tiff in a strange libel case. John Dick,
the publisher of B0tc Bells, published a
biographical sketch of Mr.. Black in his
paper last October, in which it was
asserted that the popular novelist mar
ried his wife to obtain her fortune, and
refused assistance to an aged aunt, who,
in consequence, died in the poor-house.
The evidence shows that his first wife
was portionless, his second the heiress to
but $4,000 upon the death of her father,
and that he never had an aunt. The
jury gave the plaintiff $500.
Ben Perley Poore says that Mayor
Hewitt, who suffers from insomnia, once
hired an upper story in one of the caterer
Wormley's houses, Washington. He had
three bedrooms, and would wander from
one to the other in the hope of finding
sleep in the third that would not come in
the first or second. The first night he was